[License-review] [Non-DoD Source] Re: Submission of the Upstream Compatibility License v1.0 (UCL-1.0) for approval
Richard Fontana
fontana at sharpeleven.org
Thu Dec 1 03:59:14 UTC 2016
On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 02:11:02PM +0000, Karan, Cem F CIV USARMY RDECOM ARL (US) wrote:
> > > Right now, ARL's Open Source License is stalled internally while
> > > waiting for comments from higher ups; if NOSA 2.0 was
> > > Apache-compatible and OSI approved, we could drop the ARL OSL and go with
> > > NOSA 2.0 instead.
> >
> > What do you mean by 'Apache-compatible'?
>
> A license where code and other artifacts of a project that are licensed under
> NOSA 2.0 could be legally imported into a project that is licensed under
> Apache 2.0 (as defined at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0), and
> vice-versa. We want our code to be useful to the Open Source community;
> having a license that is OSI approved, but incompatible with other licenses
> is, in my not so humble opinion, a bad idea.
I think it's safe to say that NOSA 2.0 is not Apache-compatible in
this sense.
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